Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)
"There is nothing like the sympathy of a common cause to make the settlement of other differences easy."
From Sir Winston...
This landscape painting by the American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872) alludes to the ancient tale of Odysseus and the land of the Lotus...
Egil Skallagrimsson (10th-century Icelandic Viking-Poet)
"King, bear in mind
how my ode is wrought,
I take delight
in the hearing I gained.
Through my lips I stirred
from the depths...
Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE)
"Myself, I can't stand fighting,
Peace is my thing: You know: make love not war."
also translated as
"Whilst I, whom neither seas nor...
Tacitus (c. 56-117+)
"Defeat in battle always begins with the eyes."
Germania (section 43) by Tacitus, translated by Harold Mattingly and edited by J. B. Rives....
